![winnertakeall.jpg](sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/winnertakeall.jpg)
Excerpt from Winner Take All
"Logan?" He said
as he walked in.
"Ridge I am so excited." She said. "I was going to call you but I wanted to work on this a little
bit longer."
"What are you doing down here?"
"What I was trained to do, what makes me feel smart and good."
She said. "Come here and help me."
He walked over to her. "So what are you working on?"
"Okay." She said. "This
material is the most basic cotton you can find, good real earthy cotton. But you know how it can get stained and shrink right?"
"Yeah?"
He said.
"Get that bottle over there." She said.
Ridge grabbed the bottle she pointed to. "What is it?"
"Oh
lots of things, iodine, cooking oil, chocolate syrup. Now pour it on that piece of material." She said.
"Okay." He
said as he did as she requested. "Now what?"
"Rub it in. Make sure it really is ground in." She said with a smile.
He grinned at her as he did it. "How’s that?" He asked.
"Oh give it to me." She said. She took it from
him and put it on the floor and stamped on it and started to laugh. "Now it’s ready." She picked it up. "Now we let
it set for a day or so."
"A day or so? Come on Logan, I want to see what
happens."
"You will. I did the same thing two days ago. Now look." She pulled another piece even more stained then
that one. And then one that was totally clean and untouched. "I did the same thing to both of these."
"What?" he said.
"That one looks brand new."
"I know." She said beaming. "And I washed and dried it in hot water. Ridge it works! Put
that on in the washer, go ahead."
"Okay." He said taking the stained one. He put it in the washer.
"Set it to
hot and we wait, that is if you can stay for awhile."
"Nothing could tear me away." He said. "You know I just love
seeing you this excited about something."
"I never should have gotten so far from my roots."
"What made you
come back?" He asked.
"I had an idea. I started looking into it and then Sean said something to me about choices and
I just had to do it. But Ridge, this is so exciting. This is when I feel whole. Do you understand at all?"
He looked
into her sparkling eyes. "I understand so much more than I did before Brooke, so much more."
He pulled her into his
arms and held her. She looked up at him. "What? What is it that you understand?"
"That I love you. That I’ve
always loved you. That I can’t pretend that I don’t anymore. That I need you in my life."
"Ridge no." She
said trying to pull from him. "You promised me."
"Logan."
He said softly as he brought his lips to hers. She tried to pull herself away but instead her arms went around him and they
intensified their kiss. Brooke shivered when she felt the zipper on the back of her dress go down. She stepped back slightly
to let the dress fall to the floor. She then moved closer to him and felt herself melt into his arms.
"We weren’t
going to do this anymore Ridge. It’s going to ruin everything." She said but still she couldn’t tear herself from
his arms.
"We’ll fix it, we’ll make it right." He told her kissing her face. "Somehow we’ll make
it all right again."
"And I’ll be alone." She said pulling herself from him.
"No." He said. "That isn’t
what I meant." He grabbed her hand and pulled her back to him. "I love you Brooke Logan."
"I love you too Ridge, but
what good does that do either one of us? We have an affair? We have wonderful sex and then you go home to your wife and family
and I go home alone. Is that really what you want for me? Because Ridge, it’s not what I want. I want you but not that
way, never that way."
He pulled her over to a chair and sat her on his lap. "Brooke, I’ve made mistakes in my
life. Some big and some small. I’ll never think of my children as mistakes because I love them, I love them so very
much. But the biggest mistake I ever made was when I walked away from you."
"Wwwwhat?" She asked him with widening
eyes.
"I love you." He said as a huge smile crossed his face. "I love you so very much Brooke. I’m just so damn
sorry it took me so long to see it."
"What are you telling me?" She asked.
"I want it back, I want us back.
I want you, you Brooke. I want our life back."
"Our life? What does that mean Ridge? Tell me, what does that mean?"
"This
is happening so fast. I haven’t had time to think. All I know is that I can’t be without you anymore. Not for
another day."
"Oh God. Ridge, please. I can’t go through this if you don’t mean it."
"I mean it
with all my heart Brooke."
"And Taylor?" She asked.
"I’ll
have to deal with that, it won’t be your problem, it’s mine."
"How? How can we do this? Ridge I won’t
be your mistress." She said.
"What?" He asked her. "Don’t you understand me? I want you to be my wife."
"No."
She said. "This is cruel, you are so cruel Ridge, this is Venice all over. Why
are you doing this to me? What more is there for me to give you? You can’t keep playing these games with me."
"This
is not a game, you have to trust me Logan."
Brooke got up from his lap.
"Trust you? After everything you’ve
done you want me to trust you? How can I ever trust you again? You want to f*ck me Ridge, I let you, you want to do it again,
fine, I’m too weak to fight you. But trust you? No, I’ll never trust you again. So come on." She said. "Let’s
fuck Ridge. That what you really want isn’t it." She tore at the ties on the teddy. "Come on, I’m ready for you.
I’m hot for you." She pulled at her teddy until she tore it off and stood in front of him with just the thigh high hose
and her heels.
"What’s wrong Ridge? Don’t you want me?"
"Logan."
He said.
"I can see that you do. Come on big man, take me why don’t you?"
"Stop it Logan!"
He shouted pulling her to him. "God Damn it stop it!"
They looked at each other and his mouth enveloped hers. She pulled
at his belt and then his pants. He let go of her long enough to pull them off and them pull her back to him. Their bodies
met in instant combustion as they moved with each other. Not once did their mouths stop searching each other out as they built
to a long and satisfying climax. Sweaty and sated Ridge held her tightly.
"Don’t doubt me Logan, I meant every
word I said."
"Only while you said them Ridge." She said. "But you got what you wanted anyway. Brooke the fool fell
for the pretty words. Tell me Ridge, is Taylor going to walk in now and say I
told you so? But then what would that prove. You’ve already taken everything I have. My body, my love, my dignity. Now
please let go of me. I have work to do." She got out of his arms and started to dress.
"I’ll prove it to you
Logan. I swear I will."
"I won’t hold my breath." She said as she
zipped her dress. "Do me a favor and shut the lights when you’re done." And with her head held high she walked out of
the lab.
Want More?
|